A graduate doctor has become Britain's youngest, at just 21. Rachael Faye Hill, who has wanted to be a doctor since the age of 10, has just received her medical degree from the University of Manchester. Teachers who spotted her potential allowed Rachael to skip school years so that she sat GCSEs at 13 and A-levels at just 15. She achieved A-grades in chemistry and biology and Bs in maths and physics.
She said: "My family would have been proud anyway but I think it has made them extra proud that I am now the youngest doctor in the country."
She said she hoped her age would not hinder her success in her search for graduate health and social care jobs.
"I'm hoping it won't be an issue and no one will treat me any differently," she said.
Born in Blackpool, she moved abroad with her mother and younger brother when she was eight.
As a student she attended the English-speaking Colegio Hispano Britanico in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, where her family live.
After her A-levels she had to wait for two years before she could start her course in Manchester, because medicine cannot be studied in this country until the age of 17.
Rachael started at the university just a few weeks after her 17th birthday, and sailed right through her five-year course, graduating with friends aged 23 and 24.
